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ABC News Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will undergo surgery for a hernia on Sunday, his office announced, during which time he’ll be under full anesthesia. Yariv Levin, deputy prime minister and minister of justice, will fill in as prime minister while Netanyahu is under anesthesia, the office said. The hernia was discovered Saturday night […]

ABC News As Israel continues to indicate plans to launch a ground offensive into Rafah, aid organizations warn that an invasion would be a “bloodbath” for civilians and deepen the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. Some 1.4 million Palestinians are believed to be in Rafah, the southern city of Gaza bordering Egypt. More than […]

Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu via Getty Images (TEL-AVIV, Israel) — Displaced Gazans at Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza were reportedly being told to evacuate immediately Thursday, as Israel’s raid on the hospital continues into a fourth day amid the ongoing war with Hamas. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched an operation at Al-Shifa on Monday, claiming […]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (GAZA) — The Israel Defense Forces denied accusations that its troops opened fire on a group of Gazan civilians who were waiting for aid Thursday. At least 20 people were killed and 155 were injured in a shooting at the Kuwait Roundabout in Gaza City, which is used by aid groups to distribute […]

ABC News (TEL  AVIV, Israel) — Some families of Israeli hostages say they have reached their breaking point and have begun to take extreme measures to express their frustration more than four months into the Israel-Hamas war. Dozens of people have blocked traffic in recent days on Israeli highways, lit fires, thrown buckets of fake blood, […]

President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign rally at Pearson Community Center in Las Vegas, Feb. 4, 2024. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images) (WEST BANK) — President Joe Biden handed down financial sanctions against four Israeli nationals last week who were allegedly connected to violence against civilians in the West Bank amid the Israel-Hamas war. […]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Israeli Forces may have violated international law in the raid they conducted inside a hospital in the West Bank that resulted in the death of three Palestinian men both Hamas and the Islamic Jihad claimed as members, several experts told ABC News. Israeli commandos disguised themselves as doctors and patients […]

Nancy Brown/Getty Images (GAZA) — The Israel Defense Forces said they mistakenly killed three hostages during combat this week in Shejaiya, Gaza, spokesman Daniel Hagari said during a press briefing Friday. The three men killed have been identified as 28-year old Yotam Haim; 26-year old Alon Shamriz; and 22-year old Samer Talalka. Haim is survived […]

200mm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Irael’s war with Hamas in the neighboring Gaza Strip is expected to continue at its current intensity for two more months, followed by what Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant called multiple months of “mop up” operations that would see the country’s military “taking out pockets of terrorist resistance.” Gallant made […]

JACQUELYN MARTIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images (TEL AVIV, Israel) — Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant believes his country has “no other choice” but to defend itself and that Hamas underestimated just how “tough and stubborn” the people of Israel are. Echoing the sentiments of other Israeli leaders, he says Israelis have nowhere to go, saying, […]